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t » blissful day, when my hopes became a certainty. Herbert had asked me the evening before if I would go with him in his boat. Ho knight of old ooold have handed me into the little vessel more reverentially than be did. How manly he looked! How strong and self contained 1 My heart beat fast, for somethig in bis manner told me wbat was coming, bnt I was inex pressibly happy, nevertheless. He rowed for about half an hour, then stopping, he lay npon bis oars, and looking me in the face like a brave heart as he was, told hiB tale, though with many a look of anxiety. Should I give such an one up? Never I Tet the temper of my thoughts was such that I could not stay indoors! I left the house and ran down to the shore of the bay, having first thrown a shawl over my head. The storm and darkness were terrifio, and the tide was ooming in with a hoarse, snllen cry. The salt mist drenched my hair, the winds toA and shrieked around me, and over head hung a the pitch-black sky. Suddenly I heard a step, and look ing up 1 saw Herbert Jiimself. I started with surprise “I have been hovering about all day,” he said. “I had given up the hope of seeing yon. But still I could not tear myself away.” “Ton didnot doubt me ?” I exclaim ed. "Ob, Herbert!” My look, my tone, even more than my words, reassured him. “Thank Qod!” he said, drawing a deep breath. "Thank Ood! It is not true, then, what I bear. You are not going to desert me ?” "Desert you?” “I was told you were to be disin herited unless yon married Randolph Heath, and that the temptation had been too great for you. I did not believe it And yet, and yet— forgive me, darling. I see I was wrong—I wos fearfully afraid.” "Be ufraid no longer,” I whispered, nestling to his broad breast “What are broad aores and gleaming jewels to your dear love? I am yours, and yours only." He bent and kissed me. After a while he said,— "I do not fear for your fidelity, bnt I do fear for the persecution you may snlYer. It is bnt a short walk to the little chnroh. I know the rector ; be whs, I find, one of my old school mates. Be miue to-night, and I will go away content. Not till you per mit it shall the marriage be made public.” "I am yours,” I said, "but let it be to-morrow evening. I will tell my annt in a day or two afterward. Poor aunt, it will need thnt time to prepare her.” It was arranged, therefore, that I should meet my lover at the same hour the next evening, and with parting embrace, I hurried into the house, lest I should be missed. Aunt Mordaunt was in a flutter of excitement the next morning. She bad just received a letter, saying that Randolph Heath had returned and would be at Delmor Hall by sunset. "Now, Charlotte, my love,” she said, bustling into my chamber before I was awake, “do try and look yonr best to-night You are s beauty, I know, but a charming toilet sets yon ofl amazingly. Lay oft your heavy crape just for to-nigbt, and wear that white silk with the lily-of-the-valley trimmings.* You milst fasinuto this Randolph Heath at the outset, it will be quite comfortable to have him at your feet, for you must marry him, my d**ar ; you are too scusihle a girl to make a beggar of yourself.” I only smiled in answer, «ud I suf fered my maid to array me in the daiiitv silk. Bat ut eel of sun, in stead oi receiving Randolph Heath iti the rund parlors of the H»H, I was speediug away with tuy lover toward the old, ivy-covered church, built of bricks imported from England a cen tury and a half before—the cliuroh where the Delmars for five genera- That i „ uu _ ^gbtf> The! blew, the rain drove, the waves roared in the near distance. It hid been a fateful day to me. t v • t --- Grandfather Delmsr, with whom l had lived ever since I could remem ber, had been carried to bis final home that afternoon, and now I was the last representative of onr ancient name. The wide acres of the Delmar planta tion, originally one of the estates on the eastern shore of Maryland, bad come down to me as solo heiress. To me had also descended the Delmor diamonds, which for two centuries had blazed on the persons of the Delmar ladies. Isay descended, but I am hardly correct, for these broad lands and these priceless jewels were miue only under the will of my grand father, and that will contained a pro viso which I hod just learned for the first time. I was to marry Randolph Heath, the word and adopted son of my grandfather, or else the entire property was to go to this self same Randolph. The will bad just been read. The funeral guests, or, at least, the most important of them, had listened to it in the great drawing-room below, the walls of which were hung with por traits of my Delmar ancestors, hand some men and lovely golden haired women. "Charlotte,” said my annt, when the rending of the will was ended, ‘'Charlotte, my dear, you must invite onr friend* for the night Yon nif mistress now.” “I shall never be mistress of Del- mtir Hall, Annt Mordannt,” I said, firmly. .She clutched my arm, her eyes wide »iib wonder. “And why not, pray?” ‘‘Because oi the proviso ; I will i.ever wed Randolph Heath. Her face whitened to the hne of death. She was a lone widow, and I whs her idol; und she coveted all those jewels und rich acres for my heritage. For u moment we stood breathless. . ' “Bnt Randolph Heath’s in Austra lia," suggested a friend, "and yon are mistress at least till he returns.” •‘Poor Aunty caught at this last hope with a gasp of relief. “So you are, tuy dear,” she put in ; • we’ll leave all these disagreeable things to be settled in the future. To-night, my friends, we will shut the doors against the storms and be corn- table.” She swept off toward the glowing parlor, followed by all her guests, while I fled to my chamber. The afternoon, os I have said, had turned into rain nud the huge waves thnndered on the shores of the bay close by with a hoarse cry, like a hu man heart in pain. I paced my room restlessly. I could not marry this Randolph Heath, whose face I had never looked upon since the days of my early ohildbood. I could not do it, for another face rose before me—the face of the muu I loved. A poor man, landlara and unknown, yet who had grown so dear to mo in the fow brief months of onr summer ac quaintance that to give him up were worse than death. Yet I was a Del- mar and it was u sore trial to lose my heritage—to lose the Delmar jewels. All the Delmar women before me had those matchless old diamonds ; and must I, alone of them, become disin herited anil dowcrloss ? “Yes, cheerfully,” I said; "since to keep them I most give up the choice of mv h-art. Dear, dear summer days.” For it had been during a visit tb a school friend, who lived in one of the loveliext counties of Pennsylvania, that I had met, the preceding June, Herlu-ri Stanley. For the first time in my life I had found in him a per fectly congenial soul. We liked the same poetry, preferred the same music admired the same scenery. Ah! what delicious days those were. We r ' le, we walked, we nailed, ive rend t'other. Our acquaintance soon j tious had been married. Ia the soft p i-s-d into intiu. ,cy, and from that | glitter >1 the early starlight wo were rip-nod into love. wedded. An hour after I was home N ver could I forget the day, the 1 Continued on fifth page. Ait >. wi; »• . DRUG STORE. F. JOERGER, (AGENT,) Has just Opened a New and Complete Stock of FRESH DRUGS, CHEMICALS, ZEZtO.* BtO., Next door to Goldsmith & Nook, NEWCASTLE STREET ■PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY PREPARED, “OB DAT., IV.PUTNAM, DEALER IN STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, Saddles, Bridles, MARTINGALES, WHIPS, Saddlery, Harness BUGGY CUSHIONS, AND A FINE LOT OF SHOES, ALL OF WHICH WILL BE SOLD CHEAP. »n|M»n a BAKERY! FRESH BREAD, CAKES, PIES, Etc., Balked Dally! GRAHAM & RYE BREADS SPECIALTIES. I deliver bread, etc., mn slternobn. Leive your onlars at the bakery. PETEK KRAlJSS, Brnnawlrt, 0«. My w.kod I. libelled. ■ Peter Krauss’ Bakery.” apr-Kl-Cm 10.000 BAUKELS CRUDE TURPENTINE! For which the highest cash j.ricc will be paid on delivery. For further InformiUon Inquire of JESSE WILDKlt. mariW.m Urunawick, Oi. ' * ifi .fits . : if.; •si .• C©533ST, GRITS, MEAL, MEAT. IN ALL SHAPES. m BUN INI WHEAT HUH. Goods Sold for Cash Only. Greenfield, Brown & Forrester, J. K. NIGHTENGALE, Agent, BRUNSWICK. GA. Blain’s Drug Store, Newcastle and Grant Streets, BKTJltS-^riCK, . <3--^.. (OFFICE PORT PHYSICIAN & HEALTH OFFICER) Where will be found t LARGE STOCK DRUGS, CHEMICALS, and Hair, Nail and Tooth Brushes, Perfumery and Toilet Aticlee, IN GREAT VARIETY. Soda and Mineral Waters. FROM MY SPLENDID FOUNTAIN. (Liquors prohibted). TRUSSES L™ P s«L» p f»tre : BaistV JtJPprry’s Garden Seeds. Abdominal Supporters* The very be»t CIGARS^ _____ m A Green and Black TOBACCOS /™ teas And other article., too numerous to mention, nanally kept in a flnt-cla.. Drop Store. Physicians’ Prescriptions carefully Compounded. After atore la dosed, will cheerfully attend any calls for medicines, if notified at my realdsoce. corner union and Mauefleld .tre t.. aprlll-ly JAMES T- SLAIN. LICENSED DRUGGIST.